Giving vent: New ideas offer to breathe some fresh air into the conventions of indoor climate control.

From: Mechanical Engineering-CIME | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

THERE WAS A TIME IN THE 19805 when sick buildings were all the rage. Office workers and high-rise apartment residents realized their hard-to-define maladies--everything from red eyes and sore throats to fatigue and nausea--were the result of fumes from carpet adhesives, cleaning fluids, fake leather upholstery, or mold growing in the construction materials. Those chemicals would linger in interior spaces because modern buildings were so airtight and were drawing in so little fresh air from outdoors that the fumes were never completely vented.

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